For almost six thousand years, Ayurvedic medicine has used the benefits of amla, a round, yellow, bitter fruit also called the Indian gooseberry. Amla is so bitter and so sour that it will literally give you goose bumps, and that makes it incredibly useful in natural medicine.
Because the majority of toxins in the organic world are sour, the human body is fine tuned to identify them. A bitter taste on the tongue mostly causes us to want to spit food out, and the taste receptors we also have in the stomach can detect bitterness, too. The sensation of bitterness triggers the release of extra stomach acid to make sure any offending food or toxin is completely digested.
The process of totally digesting amla guarantees that any foods eaten at about the same time are also entirely digested. Potentially allergenic proteins are broken down, and the net effect is "cooling," stopping the slow autoimmune reactions that generate inflammation all over the body.
The benefits of amla are not limited to digestive function. As pointed out earlier, the pulp of berry can be used to straighten hair. More people are fascinated, however, in using amla to fight high cholesterol, osteoporosis, and cancer.
* Amla against high cholesterol. Some of the most fascinating research about amla is in the combat against metabolic syndrome, a mixture of symptoms including moderately high cholesterol, moderately high blood pressure, and prediabetes. At least in the laboratory, fibers in amla help reverse the effects of extreme consumption of fructose.
* Amla versus osteoporosis. Researchers at the Ferrara University in Italy have discovered that amla extracts slow the activity of osteoclasts, the cells that break down bone.Since osteoporosis is a strategy of osteoclasts (bone busters) outpacing osteoblasts (bone builders), a slight shift in balance of activity stops destruction of joints by arthritis without interfering with the bone's ability to make typical repairs.
* Amla against cancer. Most of the research is testing amla as a way of preventing the growth of lung and liver cancer with a lowest of chemotherapy, rather than using amla instead of chemotherapy. But when doses of chemotherapy can be reduced, unwanted effects are also decreased.
And amla also exhibits real potential to become a proven way to stop age-related cataracts, the leading cause of blindness in people over the age of 55.
Don't rely on amla alone for any health application. But think about adding amla to your regular supplements as another coating of protection against the health effects of aging.
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